Magnetic Ghost

Wednesday, 07 February 2018

The crowd at the music stage began swelling very early on, as local favorites Hippo Campus played first, with a spirited 40 min. set that included new single, ‘South’ (EP out Oct 2 on Grand Jury Records)
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Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from February 14 to February 18, 2018.

Local favorite band
Hippo Campus is ending their tour with a hometown gig at the sold-out Palace Theatre show in St Paul this Saturday. The group is so popular that their music has been streamed over a million times worldwide, not just in Minnesota.

This is possibly on the list of best rock albums of 2014, and that's no exaggeration. Starset sure has come a long way to making their first debut album. They sure got noticed very well on the radio with
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Detroit’s Adult. has been pretty inactive since we last wrote about them in February 2007.
Since Why Bother? in 2007, the band came back in 2013 with The Way Things Fall, and most recently, Detroit House Guests, released last year.

The duo (Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus) will be headlining the 7th Street Entry this Thursday.

The award for the most Grammy Awards most-nominated act in rock goes to Nothing More, at the recent 60th Annual Grammy Awards show.

Texas-based foursome did not take home an award, but it’s an honor to be nominated for
Best Rock Performance (for “Go To War”), Best Rock Song (for “Go To War”), and
Best Rock Album (for The Stories We Tell Ourselves).

Starset is back in town, headlining the Skyway Theatre this Sunday, February 18th.
We caught Starset in Sep 2015 and noted, “Starset started off the show. These guys came out and turned heads instantly with their look and sound. These guys seemed to be the odd balls out of the line-up. Their sound was much more electronic than that of the other two bands. Not only was their sound much different, so was their look.”

Sunday, 28 June 2015

The "band" was the Anonymous Choir, a large cast of women backup singer lead by Nona Marie (Dark Dark Dark). The music portion was provided by the Ventures Cover Band, plus two additional horn players …

Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from July 7 to July 9, 2015.

Monty Python are due to reunite shortly for a series of shows in London, and California four-piece Toad the Wet Sprocket (who are named after a band in a Python skit) are back on the road, in support of their …

Currently on tour with Smash Mouth, the 90's alternative/college music band Toad the Wet Sprocket will be doing a number of side shows... including Mill City Nights in Minneapolis on July 8th.

The band also has a new EP Architect of the Ruin, which came out last week, June 16th via Abe's Records.... but, of course, they'll be playing all their hit singles, including "All I Want" and "Walk on the Ocean".

Australian Lenka will be stopping by Minneapolis' Cedar Cultural Center on Thursday, July 9th, in support of her fourth album The Bright Side (which came out June 16th via Skipalong Records/Hickory Records/RED Distribution).

Recently, the singer said that due to a family-related emergency, that she will be forced to cut her US tour short, so the following shows are cancelled: Wilmington, Vienna, Chapel Hill and Atlanta. Fortunately, Minneapolis is still on her radar.